Running remote cinnamon with ssh

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mellobob

Running remote cinnamon with ssh

Post by mellobob »

Is it possible to run a cinnamon desktop via ssh? Well, it's possible ... but I'm having problems.

First I log into the remote with ssh -X other.localhost. This is fine and logs me into a terminal.

Now, I try: cinnamon-session and it does launch. But, it's overlaying my current window. Not quite what I want.

So, next (after going to a terminal and killing my current session on the local machine), I tried cinnamon-session :2 but that doesn't seem to make a difference.

What's the magic word?
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LinuxJim

Re: Running remote cinnamon with ssh

Post by LinuxJim »

mellobob wrote:it's overlaying my current window. Not quite what I want.

That's what it should do. If you want the whole desktop in a window, connect with vnc instead of ssh.

I'm not sure if Cinnamon's 3D renderer will barf at that - XFCE might be a little more sane... ;)
mellobob

Re: Running remote cinnamon with ssh

Post by mellobob »

I'll give xfce a go.

VNC? I'll have to read up on that ... never used it.

Thanks for the ideas.
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